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History (from Greek ἱστορία - historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to examine and analyse the sequence of events, and it sometimes attempts to investigate objectively the patterns of cause and effect that determine events. Historians debate the nature of history and its usefulness. This includes discu
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Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
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Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch
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The first and definitive history of the use of food in United States law and politics as a weapon of conquest and control, a Fast Food Nation for the
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The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler--How War Made Them and How They Made War
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We're giving away 20 hardcover copies of THE STRATEGISTS by Phillips Payson O'Brien, which follows five of the most impactful leaders of WWII.
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Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
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If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.
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